A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Mr. E. C. Stott of Swinton, Manchester, the only explorer of the Coleoptera of Bolton. Mr. R. Wilding of Liverpool, who has collected in the Liverpool and Preston districts. Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin of Chester, who has collected more especially along the coast north of Liverpool. Mr. A. Reston, Stretford, Manchester, an assiduous collector of thirty years ago, whose name will be familiar to readers of the localities given in Canon Fowler's British Coleoptera. Mr, G. Dunlop of Mossley Hill, Liverpool, who has discovered several species near Liverpool new to the district. Use has also been made of records by Chappell, Sidebotham, T. Morley, Eddleston and Kidson Taylor, all of Manchester, who collected in that district fifty to thirty years ago ; of F. Archer and Constantine, former collectors of the Liverpool district Coleoptera ; and of Father C. Redman, sometime of Stoneyhurst, Lancashire. The nomenclature and arrangement here adopted is that of the British Coleoptera of Canon Fowler, published in 1887. ADEPHAGA ClCINDELID^ Cicindela campestris, L. Generally distri- buted but not common — hybrida, L. Formby and Freihf.eld sandhills, abundant in certain years ; BirkdaUy occasional Carabid^ Cychrus rostratus, L. Generally but sparingly distributed Carabus catenulatus, Scop. Common — violaceus, L. Common — monilis, F. IVest Derby — ncmoralis, Mall. Rainhill, Withington, Southport, Bolton — granulatus, L. Chat Moss, Parbold — arvensis, F. Moors near Bolton — glabratus, Payk. Probably occurs on the mountains of the north-east of the county, and one specimen, un- doubtedly an importation, was taken by Dr. Chaster at Birkdak — nitens, L. Chat and Risky Mosses (formerly), Knowsley, Freshfield sand- hills Notiophilus aquaticus, L. "1 Generally dis- — palustris, Duft. J tributed, and more frequent in dry, heathery locali- ties than, as their names would imply, in damp and marshy ones — substriatus, Wat. Coast, under sea- weed, etc. Leistus. All the species with the exception of L. montaniis, Steph., have been recorded. L. ferrugineus, L., and L. CarabiDjE [continued) rufescens, F., sometimes occur in great abundance Nebria brevicollis, F. Common every- where — gyllenhalii, Sch. Under stones in dry bed of stream, Lostock near Bolton, Withington, Ringley Wood near Man- chester Blethisa multipunctata, L., has been re- corded by Gregson from Crosby Elaphrus cupreus, Duft. "l Generally — riparius, L. J distributed Loricera pilicornis, F. Abundant every- where Clivina fossor, L. Common — collaris, Herbst. Banks of Alt, Mersey, Irwell a.nd Douglas Dyschirius thoracicus, Rossi.] All occur on — impunctipennis, Daws. the coast — nitidus, Dej, - between — politus, Dej. Crosby and — salinus, Sch. ] Southport — globosus, Herbst. In wet ditches; abundantly distributed Miscodera arctica, Payk. Recorded from Longridge Fell near Ribchester, June 1884, by C. Redman, Stoneyhurst Broscus cephalotes, L. Common on the shore Badister bipustulatus, F. Generally distri- buted, but not common anywhere Chloenius nigricornis, F. Recorded from Knowsley near Liverpool, and Mere Mere near Manchester 112
